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winSPWW2 V3.5 upgrade NOW AVAILABLE !
What follows is the final list of changes to winSPWW2 V3.5.
The patch is NOW AVAILABLE CLICK HERE Don ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WinSPWW2 version 3.5 upgrade patch 9 New Scenarios 5 Revised Scenarios 8 New maps 6 New or revised photos 2 Revised Icons 36 Updated OOB files 2 Revised Graphic files 3686 new Icon spots added Upgraded Cost Calculator Upgraded MOBHack Upgraded Extended Map Editor 1) Fixed old "W" key bug where weapon ( 1 ) could not be fired when using the "W" ( weapons ) Key to fire only 1 weapon 2) PBEM Campaign bug where smoke was not being given to core troops after the first turn is fixed 3) AIAdjust percent INI modifier will now affect the buy of AI played forces in any battle type 4) A bug in special battles that was carrying beach assaults over into the next battle has been corrected 5) On map Arty command units have been removed from the list of units able to act as spotters. They can no longer call indirect artillery missions which was allowing an arty cheat that existed back to SP2 6) ANZAC WW2 Long Campaign now starts 1/41 in the Western Desert, rather than the old earlier date. That was the first Australian action (6th Div, Bardia) in WW2. 7) Scenario 312 fixed and now has V hexes. Scenario 5 revised to make it more playable. Scenario 354 has been redone. 8) A small bug where vehicles that automatically used their smoke dischargers would not be able to move has been fixed 9) A small bug fixed for generated and PBEM campaigns, where it was possible, if the campaign was set to run in the same year, to set an end month that was earlier than the start month. The game would not run time backwards but it would only run the latest month 10) The delay for adjusting the fall of shot for both on and off map artillery landing out of the observing units line of sight has been increased and in most cases now means only one adjustment can be made without delaying the next fall of shot an extra turn. 11) European WW2 Long Campaigns will now end in May 1945 instead of April 1945. This month is used for special situations e.g. the battle for Berlin 12) More Eastern Front WW2 locations have been added. There is no longer one set battle location for every month in the East Front campaign, many alternatives have been provided. 13) Landed gliders are no longer automatically destroyed, but are now treated as abandoned vehicles. 14) A bug with all units of a side being destroyed leading to screen flicker has been fixed. 15) A Bug with all units of a side being destroyed but the game did not end even if all objectives taken has been fixed. 16) Problems with the AI counter attacking early in the delay or defence has been corrected. 17) Changes have been made to the code so that if your vehicle kicks up dust due to movement then you can no longer undo that vehicle's action. (Note that this also applies for partial smoke that does not generate a smoke graphic in the hex). 18) A PBEM campaign bug existed where on 3 failed attempts at entering the password a PBEM campaign ended the turn (and saved off the files) instead of aborting. Now the player is returned correctly to the main menu. 19) In Campaigns, core formations were able to cross-attach to non core formations. This has been corrected. You cannot now attach a core unit to a support formation. 20) A bug existed in PBEM Campaign Games where the turn 0 artillery was replayed before player 1 was asked for his password allowing player 2 to watch this turn on his machine has been fixed. Player 1 must enter his password in order to see the turn 0 bombardment. Player 2 cannot now run this turn. 21) A bug in PBEM Campaign Games has been fixed that showed the units of player 2 to player 1 during the pre-game ( turn 0 ) bombardment 22) A bug in PBEM Campaign Games where any unspotted player 2 units caused to retreat by the turn 0 bombardment were shown to player 1 was fixed. 23) There was a bug in the WW2 code for guns with range >100 and AP that caused problems with the cost calculator. Now fixed 24) A new feature for CD holders only allows players to check the location on the map of the other units in a formation with a hotkey or button in the HQ menu. 25) Off map artillery will now have a chance of losing radio contact and when they do they will not appear in the bombard menu. However, if a fire mission has been plotted and you lose contact the turn before the fire mission is scheduled to go in the fire mission will go in as scheduled but because it dropped off the bombard menu just before it did you will not be able to cancel it or shift fire. 26) "Tank Rider" passengers now have a greater chance of more casualties if caught on the tank when they are fired on. 27) Crewed weapons such as AT guns, howitzers and mortars when loaded onto a paratroop transport for air dropping now split into the crew and uncrewed weapon . They drop separately and you must now reunite the surviving crew and the unmanned weapon before being able to use it. This change also applies to vehicles but there are no "air droppable" vehicles , or transports capable of dropping them, in WinSPWW2 and very few crewed guns or mortars in droppable para formations so this change will mostly impact WinSPMBT rather than WinSPWW2. 28) Numerous small OOB corrections. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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I guess this means we will be able to quickly locate the units in a platoon or company; which will be highlighted in some way? Is this something you can post a screen shot of? cheers, Cross |
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Sounds good, thanks for your work!
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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/attac...1&d=1229519354 Shows a company with one platoon highlighted Don |
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This will make organizing units sooo much easier. It's like my Battlion is finally getting an XO. ;) It was just time consuming, after unloading everyone from ad hoc transport, then trying to sort and recall who was where. The update you guys made last year, allowing us to see what unit a transport was carrying without unloading it, was a huge step forward, but I can see this being even more useful. :up: |
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I am in the middle of a PBEM Campaign - when is it safe to upgrade?
At the end of a Battle, or only at the end of the Campaign? |
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Sweet! Just the thing for my favourite ad hoc companies! :)
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The entire current coy is highlighted, with the current platoon in gold (leader is flashing gold). That includes that section of light tanks you bought as fire support way down the unit list and cross-attached to that coy HQ. Makes deploying company teams a breeze since all the various support teams you later bought and x-attached are now obvious. I find it most useful to stop my common mistake of leading off an advance with the infantry platoon HQs, as after along march I can get them confused, especially when casualties mean that say C1 is now boss. If the current coy is the HQ coy (A0's command) then in addition to all the little individual platoons under his control, the subordinate coy HQs are treated as if platoons of A coy, so those get highlighted too. All in all, it makes it much easier to figure out who is where on the board. Cheers Andy |
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Sounds all good!
But one thing you might consider, Replenishing smoke from ammo trucks. I waited 3 turns and got all the other ammo, but no smoke ammo:re: Seems to me ammo trucks would have smoke ammo as well. Thanks for your hard work and great game! |
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Becasue smoke is not "ammo" to the game.
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Thanks yet again.
Still amazed at the changes you guys are able to make. |
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Thanks for your effords to make this game always better.
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Use your smoke carefully:doh: Thanks again for the patch upgrade:) |
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WOOO HOOOOO Xmas came early can't wait to get home and DL this Upgrade.:D:D:D
You guys rock!!:up::up: Steel Panther uber alles:cool: Bob out:D |
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Thank you for the new patch!
Especially for the platoon highlight!!! Now please implement it in SPMBT too... Artur. |
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The MBT upgrade is coming just a wee bit of patience for these hard working guys!;)
Bob out:D |
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The MBT patch won't be ready unit at least the end of the winter.
Don |
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Installed the upgrade,a question though.
I've been on a long campaign as US vs AI. After 11/43 it is possible to get Sikorsky copters. What a pleasent surprise,and even better you can load 1 man{sniper} onboard. Was that added new in the recent upgrade or was copters always availible after 11/43 before the upgrade? Sorry if this seems like dumb question just thought i'd ask. :o |
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Thanks for the new patch!
And about smoke ammo, how the game decided the # of smoke ammo for each tank? For my experience, it seems that x0 unit tends to have smoke ammo while others not likely. Does the # of smoke discharger play any role in it? |
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Thanks Don & Andy! Great patch:).
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Yes, it's been available that date for years. Don |
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Thanks, Don and Andy, for the hard work on this upgrade.:)
The highlight of unit designation - AWESOME!:up: |
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Inetersting new feature, I expect it to be implemented in mbt as well. Keep Cool! Roberto |
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Have had time now with the new Arty Routine, and I must say I like it a lot. One now has to put more time and effort into planning, recruiting and most certainly attempting to keep eyes on the areas fire missions are required. Well Done BRAVO ZULU!!!
Bob out:D |
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Is this something new, because I have been playing SP off and on for ages, and it seesm this is the first time I've seen this, and it's quite an oversight if it was true before this last version. What I'm talking about is getting a unit, any unit, and firing all it can for that turn. What used to always happen, was even if you had all weapons ready for that last shot, only the main weapon would fire, or I assume the top weapon only if the others were turned off. It would do that every blasted time. Now it's firing all the weapons as it would for any of the other chances to fire before the last chance. I guess somebody besides me must had noticed that (forgive me for I haven;t read all this thread yet) and it sure is a relief to see it's fixed now.
For my own sense of the thing, I never thought about complaining that it was a game defect, but just accepted that there was some deliberate reason for that going on and just never seen it explained or even brought up before. Like wow, if this version fixed that and nobody did anything to fix it. Oh, I just knew I had a question still. I see talk of adjusting aircraft altitude, but how is this done ingame? |
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That nice but it's not AMMO to the game in the same way HE and AP are.
OK? Don |
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Helicopters are adjustable in game not aircraft. The only other thing you may have read was bombers fly at high atitude whereas fighter bombers fly at low but that's preset in the game not adjustable Don |
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Thanks Don.
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And talking about observers, does the "experience" rating mean much? I found that "artillery" rating is much more important for the reduction in delays... |
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2) Arty rating will affect call times, but experience will affect any accuracy throws etc. Andy |
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At last has tested WinSPWW ver. 3.5
The opportunity to see number unit has very much liked! It is very grateful! :up: |
We're glad everyone seems to like this addition to the game
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Just a quick HI! and a big thanks to Don and Andy for keeping one of my favorite games alive.
Must be more than 9 years now since I first played SPWW2 back in the old days. Your support is really awesome. Keep up the great work! best regards Helge |
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Ditto to everything. Just downloaded the patch and love the changes!
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Don and Andy,
Thank you for the additional icon slots! One thing....You do realize that you have 2 .shps that are for Icon0123.shp, the invisible turret version (icon numbers 2300 - 2397) and the normal one (icon numbers 4698 - 4747)or at least the SPWW2-MasterIcon.txt says so? Oragus |
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Oops.:doh: Avoid using either Icon0123.shp for now Don |
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Don,
No problem, just thought I would bring that up. Request; can you keep the invisible turret ones...lol? Not many in there at the moment. Oragus |
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Joe, nice to see you around again.
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Don,
I forgot something else. I don't know if this is an oversight, something hidden or what, but I am curious, so I will ask. Any reason why Icon0040-0043.shps, Icon0060-0063.shps, and Icon0065-0072.shps are not represented on the SPww2-MasterIconList.txt? Oragus PS: Nice to be back. Thanks for the welcome back junk2drive! |
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It was simply easier to start from one point and move forward rather than hunt through the list looking for numbers not used. The first Icon0123.shp was added to fix a previous error where I assigned Icon slots to a SHP file number we reserved for flags and since it was out of order and buried I missed it when I started numbering the new ones. Don |
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Ok, thanks...satisfies my curiosity. Thanks again
Oragus |
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What updates are needed for the CD version, copyright 2006, bought mid-2008? The 2.5/3/3.5 ones, or earlier ones as well?
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All of them in order
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many thanks for this upgrade
just to tell that the AI uses mines in a much more clever way |
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